Trousers-pocket.



W. HwSTROBELj TROUSERS POCKET.

AIWLICATION FILED r2349, 191s.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

TH Ive/ems PETERS co" rwom urn 1, WASHINGTON, u. I

"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

"WILLIAM H. STROBEL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR O13 ONE-FOURTH T0 MOB-TON KALLIS AND ONE-FOURTH TO MICHAEL DANE, BOTH 013 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS TROUSERS POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 10, 1913.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

Serial No. 747,304.

To oZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. S'rnonnn, a citizen of the United States, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Trousers-Pockets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact. description.

The invention relates to trousers and more particularly to side-pockets therein.

It is now common practice to have pockets in trousers in which the opening is formed in the sides instead of the top. In the use of these side pockets, it frequently occurs that the contents of the pocket fall out when the wearer is sitting or lyingdown. Heretofore this has been prevented by providing an internal extension in the mouth of the pocket, and my present invention is designed to provide certain improvements in the construction of the same, whereby said extension will. be materially strengthened, and whereby access to the contents of the pocket will not be materially interfered with thereby.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claim at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a pair of trousers embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an inside view of a portion of the trousers and one of the pockets, a part of the inner face of the pocket being broken away. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3--3 of Fig. 2. Fig. l is a section taken on line lt-4 of Fig. 2, the pocket being shown open for clearness.

The trousers a may be made in any suitable manner. The pocket I) is formed of a piece of suitable fabric which is folded at one side as at b to form the front and back and has its edges stitched together as at b to form the bottom and outer side of the pocket. The seam 6 extends approximately to the point 6 and from that point upward, the pocket-opening is formed for the insertion of a hand. A facing-strip c is secured to the front inner side of the pocket. An-

other facing-strip c is secured to the back Copies of this patentmay be obtained to:

A strip of stout material cl, preferably of the same material used for the pocket, with an accordion plait (Z' therein, extends in wardly and slightly downwardly from the lower end of the pocket-opening b and the sides of this strip are stitched between the facing strips 0, c and front and back of the pocket respectively, as indicated at d and (Z said line 1 of stitching extending entirely around the sides and bottom of said facing strips, 0, 0, thus securing said strips firmly to the walls of the pocket. This strip with its plait permits the separation of the front and back sides to afford access to the contents at the bottom of the pocket.

When the wearer is sitting or lying down, the contents, particularly small articles and coins, instead of slipping out of the pocket through the opening 12*, will be trapped in the pocket by the strip (Z, so that the wearer may sit or lie down without losing the contents of the pocket.

The invention. is not to be restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claim witlr out departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new and desire tosecnre by Letters Patent, is

the sides of said plaited strip being disposed between said facing strlps and the walls 01 said pocket and being secured by the bottom lines of stitching, said plaitcd strip operating to prevent articles from falling out of the pocket opening.

i VILLIAM H. STROBEL.

Witnesses J. Gr. ANDERSON, MILDRED STUMPF.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

